NZ is criminalising sexualised deepfakes – banning apps that make them should be next

New Zealand is changing the law to make sexualised deepfakes a crime. But this alone may not be enough to counter the rise in AI-generated fake sexual material.

This week the Deepfake Digital Harm and Exploitation Bill is set to go through its first reading, with support across the political spectrum. The amendment will make creating, sharing or selling sexually explicit deepfakes without consent a criminal offence.

It comes in response to the rapid spread of such material, including the rollout of Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot on X, which people used to digitally undress women and girls and generate potentially three million sexualised images.

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